That’s good as far as it goes, but, honestly? The idea that there are millions of Americans willing to vote for this guy, and a substantial numer of those millions actually think his shit don’t smell, is absolutely terrifying to me. And I do blame both parties for this, though not equally. The Republicans and their…

I’m starting to think that the brain trust behind naming this blog “the slot” is amazingly prescient.

Speaking for myself, if a politician doesn’t believe in anthropogenic climate change, across the board equal rights for all, or a woman’s right to autonomy over her body, then that politician is not someone I could ever vote for. (I would also state that those items should disqualify every freakin’ asshole who runs on…

Pence will be replaced by one of those Trump statues that made the rounds a while back. Mercifully, it will now be clothed.

I’ve been having the same problem. It’s really tough and vile.

The women look bitter and vindictive and Trump looks petty and vindictive.

You’re right — Eisenhower was the best of the post-Teddy Repubs. He certainly wasn’t perfect, but he was better than the other guys. You know why? He led the country using predominantly Democratic principles : taxes were high for the rich and for businesses, he believed in infrastructure spending and even expanded the…

This would be tragic if Trump wasn’t running for president and has already done so much damage to the country (joining a long line of Republicans going back to Hoover). Trump seems to think that he’s classy, a person of power that others respect, and that confers upon him certain rights.

That’s a pretty low bar.

I’m a Democrat that wants Trump to stay in the race and get thoroughly trounced. The Republican party needs to own this, because Trump is their creation, he’s everything they stand for in one big orange sociopathic lump of toxicity.

I’m a Democrat who thinks Trump should stay in the race. The reason I feel that way is that anybody who has been paying attention knows that the Republicans will spend the next however-long-it-takes either disavowing Trump or pretending he doesn’t exist (see : Bush, George Dubya). The Republicans need to own this,…

My best guess is that the Repubs will, once again, have an important talk with Trump and try to rein him in, possibly such a talk will end in a suggestion to give a humble and contrite apology about his “boys will be boys” moment. Trump will refuse, because in his eyes, he hasn’t done anything wrong. I absolutely…

I am partial to Pussygalore, I think. ‘gate is so ‘70s.

Of course he still has the religious vote -- they don’t care about women either, you know.

I’ve realized something today, about Trump. Women are what he hunts. Like his sons go off to Africa to kill big game, in order to make themselves feel manly, I think Trump views women — well, attractive women he deems fuckable — the same way.

I agree, though I’ve not seen all the Nolan stuff (& likely will not, with what I went through with POI : it’s SO weird because that show had a ton of incredibly awesome women characters, which was a huge part of its appeal for me, but man did they mess up, losing Carter was bad enough, dammit). I’ve seen some of the…

I don’t know if this is the right place to post this, but whenever I see smug politicians (usually older white men) pontificate about the “culture of life” and that sort of thing, I get very angry. What they never seem to say is “if a woman is pregnant, she’s going to have the kid come hell or high water, that’s it.”…

I think it was the tease about Carter’s relationship with Reese moving forward and then ... well. I stopped watching for quite a while after that, but during an illness I got caught up. And the show, even without her magic, was tremendous, but man, they screwed the pooch bigtime in season 5. No more Nolan for me since…

Jonathan Nolan was the mastermind behind Person of Interest, which was one of the more amazing network shows I’ve ever seen. But the way the show ended — killing off Root, the queer woman who had had a unique redemption arc (and played by the incredibly under-rated Amy Acker, who deserved all the awards), as a plot…

My own preference would be for nobody to be carrying a weapon, but my reading of the situation is that the cops approached this kid with no good reason (ie, the kid wasn’t the person they were looking for). I do strongly feel the kid was scared and that’s why he ran. And I can easily assume — sadly all too easily…